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AE EP#26 The Ultimate Breadboard

While I was working on my Oscilloscope project I discovered, that breadboards are only semi-useful for Bigger things. Everything seems not to add to your project but to just pile up on it. After you added some probes and things that need a bus you will sit on a fragile, unforgiving crapstack, that just waits for you to stick a jumper-wire in the wrong hole. So I decided to make myself some room on the board and push connectors, displays and meters away from the center. Just take a look what came out:

This is of course just a source of ideas so if you make one of your own please let me know and if you don’t publish yourself, I’d be delighted to show off pictures of yours here!

Some words on construction:
The base is made from a piece of structured plastic (45 x 30 cm) on top of that are some pieces of wood with some plastic veneer that form the body. This makes up the wedge form in the back. On top once again I used some sign plastic covered with red spraypaint, why red? because its shiny
Ground and Earth are normally separated and can be connected on demand.

Thank you for the inspiration! I had a similar idea several years ago to expand upon my old analog/digital trainer from school (which is portable) and build it into my bench, enlarge the breadboard, and add more functionality for prototyping, especially for microcontrollers and computer interfacing. Never got around to it, but it is now back on my list! Thanks again and nice work!